I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
A. C. BENSONI think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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